Morning Bits: Betting, Mattingly, Road Trip, Struggles

Good morning all.  End of the week is here and it’s a long weekend for most.   Enjoy the weather and the time away if you are going somewhere cool.

Now let’s get to the links….

– Not a Yankee link but a link that could have some spark something in my home state of N.J.   Gov. Christie is going forward with making sports betting legal in N.J.

– Former Yankee star and my favorite Yankee growing up loves his new life in L.A. reports Bob Klapish of The Boston Herald.

– Ken Davidoff of The New York Post says the Yankees need to roll on this road trip.

– Kevin Long refuses to sell struggling sluggers short writes Bryan Hoch of mlb.com.